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Actor Sean Penn has criticized the #MeToo movement, asserting that it has divided men and women and that 'it's too black and white'.

The two-time Oscar winner revealed his feelings toward the movement during an interview at his home - airing on TODAY Monday - with actress Natascha McElhone, his co-star in the new Hulu series 'The First'.

The show, which marks Penn's debut on the small screen, is based in the year 2030 and features a heavily-female cast on a mission to Mars. 

Interviewer Natalie Morales brought up the topic of the #MeToo movement by asking McElhone if she felt the use of so many strong female leads - including the actress's own role as 'an unapologetic visionary who oversees the mission' - was inspired by the crusade.

'Yeah, and for me in life, that's not unusual. I don't see that as aberrant,' McElhone said of the use of strong female characters. 

'[However] I get that in TV and in a lot of our media, women haven't been depicted in that way, and I find that deeply disturbing.'

Penn disagreed with that assessment, saying: 'I'd like to think that none of it was influenced by what they call the movement of #MeToo.'

Actor Sean Penn criticized the #MeToo movement as being 'too black and white' during an interview alongside actress Natascha McElhone, his co-star in the new Hulu series 'The First'

In the interview with NBC's TODAY airing Monday, Penn claimed the new show's heavy focus on strong female characters had nothing to do with the #MeToo movement over the last year

'The First' is based in the year 2030 and features a heavily-female cast on a mission to Mars. Penn and McElhone are pictured right at an event promoting the new series last week

Penn went on: 'I think it's influenced by the things that are developing in terms of the empowerment of women who've been acknowledging each other and being acknowledged by men. 

'This is a movement that was largely shouldered by a kind of receptacle of the salacious.'

Morales quickly prompted the 58-year-old to explain what he meant by 'receptacle of the salacious'.

'Well, we don't know what's a fact in many of the cases,' Penn replied. 'Salacious is as soon as you call something a movement that is really a series of many individual accusers, victims, accusations, some of which are unfounded.

'The spirit of much of what has been the #MeToo movement is to divide men and women.' 

Penn elaborated on his criticism of the movement by saying: 'I don't want it to be a trend, and I'm very suspicious of a movement that gets glommed on to in great stridency and rage' 

Morales challenged: 'Women would say it's uniting women.'

Penn, who is known for his tendency to avoid media interviews, continued: 'I'm gonna say that women that I talk to, not in front of a camera, that I listen to, of all walks of life, that there's a common sense that is not represented at all in the discussion when it comes to the media discussion of it, the discussion where if Sean Penn says this, so and so's going to attack him for saying this, because of that.

'I don't want it to be a trend, and I'm very suspicious of a movement that gets glommed on to in great stridency and rage and without nuance. And even when people try to discuss it in a nuanced way, the nuance itself is attacked.' 

He added: 'I think it's too black and white.

'In most things that are very important, it's really good to just slow down.'

McElhone then tried to provide some context to Penn's commentary, mentioning that the #MeToo movement has been talked about 'a great deal' on the set of 'The First'. 

'I think what Sean was maybe alluding to is this sort of bubble of actors or people who are in magazines that have gotten a lot of attention from this,' she said.

'Of course it's terrific that they've put a spotlight on it. But now, it's we need to go to the places where this is happening behind closed doors, and it's not exposed and those voices aren't being heard.'

The two-time Oscar winner's role in 'The First' is also his debut on the small screen

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